Reptilia - Testudines - Toxochelyidae
Parent taxon: Chelonioidea according to O. W. M. Kuhn 1966
See also Carroll 1988, Gaffney 1975, Hay 1902, Hay 1908, Hay 1930, Jaekel 1911, Karl et al. 2012, Karl and Nyhuis 2012, Kuhn 1946, Nicholls 1988, Thurmond and Jones 1981 and Weems 1988
Sister taxa: Cheloniidae, Cimochelys, Dermochelyidae, Dermochelyoidae, Desmatochelyidae, Dollochelys rogovichi, Euclastidae, Kimurachelys, Leviathanochelys, Nichollsemys, Pandermochelys, Pliochelys, Progonosaurus, Protostegidae, Turgaiscapha kushmurunica
Subtaxa: Cynocercus Glyptops belviderensis Lophochelyinae Macrobaeninae Osteopyginae Porthochelys Toxochelyinae
Type: Toxochelys
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Paleocene of Angola (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: Maryland, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous of Canada (10: Alberta), Germany (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (17: Alabama, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Kyrgyzstan (1)
Total: 38 collections including 39 occurrences